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Jeremiah 2:32

Does a virgin forget her ornaments? A bride her bands? And My people have forgotten Me [for] days without number.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.

In Context

31O generation, see the word of YHWH: Have I been a wilderness to Israel? A land of thick darkness? Why have My people said, || We wandered freely, || We do not come to You again.

33Why do you make your ways pleasing to seek love? Therefore you have even taught the wicked your ways.

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Cross References

Genesis 24:22And it comes to pass, when the camels have finished drinking, that the man takes a golden ring (whose weight [is] a bekah), and two bracelets for her hands (whose weight [is] ten [bekahs] of gold),

Genesis 24:53and the servant takes out vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and gives to Rebekah; precious things also he has given to her brother and to her mother.

Judges 8:34and the sons of Israel have not remembered their God YHWH, who is delivering them out of the hand of all their surrounding enemies,

Psalms 9:17The wicked turn back to Sheol, || All nations forgetting God.

Psalms 106:21They have forgotten God their Savior, || The doer of great things in Egypt,

Isaiah 61:10I greatly rejoice in YHWH, || My soul rejoices in my God, || For He clothed me with garments of salvation, || [And] covered me with a robe of righteousness, || As a bridegroom prepares ornaments, || And as a bride puts on her jewels.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 2:30-37

Expostulations with Israel. ( b. c. 629.) 29 Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the Lord . 30 In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion. 31 O generation, see ye the word of the Lord . Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee? 32 Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people… Read the whole commentary →

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